4 Maccabees 9:4

²And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.

³O tyrant, counselor of lawbreaking, do not, hating us as thou dost, pity us more than we pity ourselves.

— 4 Maccabees 9:4 —

⁵And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though thou hadst learned nothing by the death of Eleazar.

⁶But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel tortures, which our aged instructor overcame.